Silica often receives a bad rap under the context of industrializing bamboo. It occurs in high quantities in the nodes of bamboo culms, and under traditional chemical based pulping technologies, it requires large volumes of lime to be used to remove it, resulting in nasty lime sludge waste streams. In various other manufacturing technologies bamboo...

In preparation for the time when the vast volumes of leaves can be put to use, particularly from EcoPlanet Bamboo's plantations and bamboo farms in Nicaragua, we at EPB Laboratories have been carrying out a series of research experiments in conjunction with the internationally acclaimed Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia.